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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WRL 8

Siglum
WRL 8
Transliteration
l ʿ{ḍ}{ḥ}l bn ʾṣ{r} bn ʿmd bn lḏn w byt h- mġrt b- mʿzy
Translation
By {ʿḍḥl} son of {ʾṣr} son of ʿmd son of Lḏn and he spent the night in the cave with some goats

Interpretation

Commentary
WRL 6–8 are on one face of a large boulder near the entrance to the cave. This text is carved in chiselled letters, boustrophedon across the lower half of the face.

Associated Inscriptions
WRL 6–7

  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 on the left bank of Wādī Rushaydah, and published here.
Site
Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Domestic animals, Genealogy, Present in a place, Topographic features
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036041
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